‘Eat Sleep Die’ tops Spain’s Seville

'Boy Eating the Birds Food' also sweeps top plaudits

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Two dramas set against the background of Europe’s crisis — “Eat Sleep Die,” from Sweden’s Gabriela Pichler, and Greek Ektoras Lygizos’ “Boy Eating the Bird’s Food” — topped the 9th Seville European Film Festival, which wrapped Saturday.

A Venice fest audience award winner, “Eat” scooped Seville’s Golden Giraldillo, while its star, Montenegro-born Nermina Lukac, took actress playing a Muslim girl in Sweden who gets fired from her factory job.

“Boy” won Silver Giraldillo and actor nod for Yannis Papadopoulos as a 20-year-old man living on his own in Athens, threatened by eviction. “Boy” earned a special mention at the Karlovy Vary fest.

As in 2008 with “Gomorra,” Italo helmer Matteo Garrone scored Seville’s special jury prize, this time with “Reality,” which won Cannes’ Grand Prix.